Visible crew/equipment: While Sarek is lying in sickbay, McCoy, Spock, and Kirk discuss the open heart procedure, and when Christine walks over to stand beside Sarek, the white tape mark is visible on the floor where she stands. (00:24:20)
Visible crew/equipment: When Kirk walks into the brig Spock tells him that Nomad has almost human stubbornness, and that its screens are still up, then just as Kirk moves closer to Nomad the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the top, left side of the screen. (00:28:15)
The Trouble With Tribbles - S2-E15
Visible crew/equipment: After Mr. Baris takes Darvin into custody and leaves the room, when Kirk walks over to Captain Koloth three white tape marks are visible on the floor. (00:45:10)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - S3-E15
Other mistake: At the end of the episode, as Lokai is running through the ship, his hands are empty. However, in one closeup shot he is holding onto a rope with his left hand. The rope is gone in the following shot. Presumably this rope was used to tether him to the camera as he ran so that he could maintain distance from the camera.
A Piece of the Action - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Kirk is talking to Oxmyx across the pool table, the yellow 1 ball is shown close to Kirk, then Oxmyx, and back.
Continuity mistake: During the hand-to-hand fight scene, the stunt double playing Spock gets his hair mussed up, but immediately after the fight, Spock's hair is neatly combed and formed, as it was before the fight.
Revealing mistake: When Abraham Lincoln shoves the Klingon away from him during their fight, the Klingon collides with a heavy boulder which moves several inches at impact.
Visible crew/equipment: A stagehand's foot is visible before the party beams down. (00:09:10)
Continuity mistake: The blood dripping from Isak's mouth changes sides.
Revealing mistake: When Kirk holds a golden egg, a seam can be seen on it. (00:43:55)
Space Seed - S1-E23
Continuity mistake: As the away team observes Khan in the stasis chamber, McCoy holds his tricorder with both hands, but the next shot shows him holding it in one hand.
Space Seed - S1-E23
Continuity mistake: On the Botany Bay, McCoy is not holding his tricorder, but when the ship's lights activate, McCoy suddenly has his tricorder in his hands.
Space Seed - S1-E23
Continuity mistake: When Khan asks Kirk "How long?" Kirk's head is near Khan's with nobody behind his head, but the next long shot shows Scotty behind Khan.
Space Seed - S1-E23
Continuity mistake: Khan's hands switch positions several times on the table between quick cuts as he and Kirk talk.
Revealing mistake: As Kirk and the Gorn battle, they briefly confront each other from opposite sides of a dead tree which has truncated limbs. One of the larger tree limbs on this supposedly uninhabited, tiny world has obviously been cut off with a chain saw or similar cutting instrument.
Revealing mistake: The stuntman playing Latimer is obvious when he falls after being hit in his back with the creature's spear.
Continuity mistake: As Veena (as the Orion Slave Girl) dances, the water in the pool is still, then in the Observation room, as Kirk and party watch, the water is disturbed. A moment later, it's flat calm.
Visible crew/equipment: As the camera swings around to simulate the crewman's gaze, the top of the background is visible for a second until the camera pans down.
Visible crew/equipment: As the camera looks at the Galileo, if you look at the green background, you can see the top of the sound stage.
Visible crew/equipment: As Kirk goes to talk to Uhura, the studio light is reflected of the second to left panel from Uhura.
Chosen answer: If they're in orbit, they're being pulled along by the planet's gravity well, therefore, impulse engines would only be used for minor corrections and would be "on standby" while in orbit, but not active. (Like keeping your car idling without revving the engine and creating plumes of exhaust).
Captain Defenestrator
Thank you for the info.
Movie Nut